Species Beroe ovata Bruguière, 1792

Museums

Regional Maps

• Beroe ovata Bruguière, M. 1792. Encyclopédie Méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 1 i–xviii, 757 pp. [175].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

More or less cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: Central E coast
  • Western Australia: Central W coast

Ecological Descriptors

Ctenovore, marine, pelagic, planktonic.

 

Diagnosis

Body mitre-shaped, to 115mm long; lateral compression very marked, the broad, lateral diameter being fully 3 times as wide as the narrow diameter. Apical sense capsule near the surface, marked by a figure 8 shaped row of branched papillae. Comb rows short, with 25 to 30 combs of cilia, extending about three-quarters the distance toward the mouth. The mouth is a wide gaping slit, its cavity of large dimensions. Eight meridional canals communicate with each other by means of a loose network of numerous side branches, which anastomose through the gelatinous substance of the animal. Network of canals delicate pink, gelatinous substance translucent steely-blue, numerous small, stellate areas of dark brown and light rosin-colored spots upon the 8 meridional vessels and around the mouth.

 

Diagnosis References

Mayer, A.G. 1912. Ctenophores of the Atlantic coast of North America. Publication of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 162: 1-58 [50]

 

General References

Goy, J. 1990. Preliminary observations on the zooplankton of Shark Bay, Western Australia, with emphasis on medusae and description of a new rhizostome jellyfish (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa). Research in Shark Bay. 325 in Berry, P.F., Bradshaw, S.D. & Wilson, B.R. (eds). Research in Shark Bay: Report of the France-Australe Bicentenary Expedition Committee. Perth : Western Australian Museum. (reported from Shark Bay)

Greenwood, J.G. 1980. Composition and seasonal variations of zooplankton populations in Moreton Bay, Queensland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 91: 85-103 (reported from Moreton Bay)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-Dec-2015	CTENOPHORA Eschscholtz, 1829	15-Dec-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Lisa Gershwin
		19-Feb-2015	MODIFIED